Experience: 5+ years
- Write, review, and optimize production-ready code daily while making key technical decisions and holding a high bar for code quality.
- Lead technical design reviews and produce technical designs as a primary author-delivering elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Use AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor etc) to support technical design, explore tradeoffs, accelerate delivery, and augment code reviews-while critically evaluating all AI-generated output to ensure it meets team quality and security standards.
- Identify repeatable tasks that can be accelerated with AI; guide junior engineers on effective and responsible AI usage.
- Design and build scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails, owning provider-facing APIs across the profile, onboarding, and offboarding lifecycle.
- Lead multi-person, multi-sprint projects: coordinate execution, manage dependencies and tradeoffs, and build alignment across stakeholders.
- Mentor and actively develop engineers at earlier career stages through code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching.
- Own operational excellence: exemplify best practices in logging, alerting, and monitoring; methodically investigate incidents and provide root cause analyses, including participating in an on-call rotation.
- Coding Excellence - Deliver clean, efficient, and scalable code that enhances system performance, maintainability, and reliability. Your code quality serves as a model for the team.
- Technical Leadership - Lead high-impact projects from ideation to delivery, driving technical direction while making significant hands-on coding contributions.
- AI-Augmented Engineering - Actively use AI to accelerate your work-from drafting designs and debugging to reviews and documentation-while guiding teammates to do the same responsibly and effectively.
- Scalable & Reliable Systems - Design, implement, and maintain architectures that support future growth while maintaining high system uptime and low defect rates.
- Project Execution - Consistently ship high-quality projects on time, within scope, and with high stakeholder satisfaction.
- Engineering Excellence - Elevate team standards through strong personal contributions, high-value code reviews, and proactive identification of tech debt and improvement opportunities.
- Mentorship & Growth - Act as a technical leader and mentor, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and accountability.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Python, or equivalent object-oriented backend language.
- Experience leading technical designs and multi-person engineering projects end-to-end.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL.
- Actively uses AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) and iterates on prompts to get high-quality outputs-while critically reviewing AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards compliance.
- Embraces writing well-designed tests that accompany all code.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop engineers at earlier career stages.
- Comfortable working on an agile team; curious about learning new things, including evolving AI capabilities.
- Bonus: Experience integrating AI/ML features or LLM-powered services in production.
- Bonus: Background in healthcare or regulated environments.
The target base salary range for this position is $159,000 - $191,000 and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.
We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.
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